The aim of church revitalisation is to bring a church back to spiritual health and vitality.
Here is a simple definition of a healthy church -
A healthy church is a fellowship of redeemed believers
- who love God with all their heart, with all their soul, with all their mind, with all their strength (Mark 12:30)
- who love people (Mark 12:31)
- in their cultural context
Two things are necessary to enable revitalisation -
- a vision
- a process
A vision
The diagram below presents a vision of a church which is adapted to our contemporary European context. The diagram is flexible and can be used for all types of churches, wherever they may be and whatever their denomination.
A process
Revitalisation involves a process. The flow-chart below summarises the stages through which the leadership team must lead the church over a period of time.
This process comprises several simultaneous dimensions -
- the spiritual area (living out a relationship with God)
- the social area (relationships between Christians and with non-Christians)
- the societal area (the cultural context of the church)
- the structural area (in particular leadership)
- the strategic area (change management)
Follow-up
Bearing in mind the particular context of each church, training or mentoring is almost indispensable in order to implement practically what is shown in these diagrams.
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